The Red Wings scored three power play goals -- including Johan Franzen's 12th goal of the postseason -- as Detroit took a 1-0 in the Western Conference Finals with a convincing 4-1 victory Thursday night over the Dallas Stars. The win was the seventh-straight for the Red Wings in the post season and improved Detroit's home record to 6-0 in the Stanley Cup playoffs.

The Red Wings raced out to a 2-0 lead in the first period on a pair of power-play goals. After killing off a Dallas power-play Detroit earned a 5-on-3 advantage after a pair of penalties on the Stars. Defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom skated in from the point and had his point shot clang off the post and back to Brian Rafalski, who waited for a screen from Tomas Holmstrom before his shot beat Marty Turco for a 1-0 Detroit lead 4:28 into the game.

Franzen made it 2-0 just over 11 minutes later when his deflection of Niklas Kronwall's point shot beat Turco through the five-hole.

The power-play dominance continued into the second period, with Holmstrom scoring on a deflection at the edge of the crease of a Lidstrom shot. Valtteri Filppula pushed the lead to 4-0 on a breakaway with less than five minutes remaining in the third period following some tic-tac-toe passing from Kronwall and Mikael Samuelsson.

Brendan Morrow spoiled Osgood's shutout bid late in the second period with a rebound goal to cut Detroit's lead to 4-1.

Detroit outshot the Stars 31-21 for the game and held the Stars to no power-play goals on four opportunities. Turco turned aside 27 shots while Osgood stopped 20 of 21 for the Red Wings.

Franzen's goal -- the eventual game-winner -- was the fifth GWG goal in the playoffs for the forward.

The Red Wings made one lineup change prior to Game 1: Kirk Maltby, who had completely recovered frmo a partially torn hamstring, was inserted into the fourth line with rookie Darren Helm and Jiri Hudler. Darren McCarty was a healthy scratch.